Fw: [Mycroft] [Statistics] January 2004, Week 2 (full week)

[Ricky]

Alan Bramley wrote:
> Ricky wrote:
> 
>> Viva vivisimo! Vivisimo is the word of the week: new challenger, 
>> closest challenger, most error pages... you'll see vivisimo everywhere 
>> in these stats. Last week on rank 17 with 35 hits (5 per day) it 
>> ranked this week on rank 11 with ... 291 searches (over 40 per day), 
>> which is an increase of 830%!!!
>>
>> Since I've never used vivisimo, I thought I could have a look. To my 
>> surprize, on the frontpage you can read: "Mozilla Users - Install 
>> Search Plugin!" Yeah, that's right, they just copied Alan Bramley's 
>> plugin and modified it slightly.
>>
> Wow! The power of publicity. Two ideas spring to my mind.
> 
> 1. Write to Vivisimo with your analysis. It will demonstrate to them how 
> wise they were to place a Mycroft plugin on their main page and hence 
> they will be encouraged to keep it there.
> 
> 2. Write to the other major search engines presenting this analysis and 
> suggesting that they also can benefit to a similar degree by including a 
> link to our plugins.
> 
> If they choose to follow Vivisimo's example it will be a great boost for 
> both Mycroft and Mozilla in general.

Alan,

That's 2 great ideas. But before crying "victory" (or anything similar), 
I want to see what happens this week with vivisimo. First I forgot to 
add the vivisimo file in the quick directory, but now, comparing 
altavista and vivisimo, altavista comes out winner with 41:31 (same 
amount of time).

Then, I've never said that vivisimo itself brought us these visitors. 
There must be something else, but I cannot figure out why Monday and 
Tuesday don't show any relevant referrer for that. Maybe it's a blog 
where the link was no URL, so people would have to copy it and paste it 
in the address bar. If this is so, then it must be a veeeery popular 
blog and a very interesting article too...

ricky